She wanted to kiss her child, but she knew it was not the thing for a grown-up boy to be kissed, so she refrained.
Yitzchokel mounted the cart, the passengers made room for him among them.
"Remain in health, mother!" he called out as the cart set off.
"Go in health, my child! Sit and study, and don't forget your mother!" she cried after him.
The cart moved further and further, till it was climbing the hill in the distance.
Taube still stood and followed it with her gaze; and not till it was lost to view in the dust did she turn and walk back to the town.
She took a road that should lead her past the cemetery.
There was a rather low plank fence round it, and the gravestones were all to be seen, looking up to Heaven.
Taube went and hitched herself up onto the fence, and put her head over into the "field," looking for something among the tombs, and when her eyes had discovered a familiar little tombstone, she shook her head:
"Lezer, Lezer! Your son has driven away to the Academy to study Torah!"